Monday, November 7, 2016

DONALD TRUMP A MANIFESTATION OF AN ILLUSION

One of the highest teachings of Eastern Spirituality is the
knowing that what we experience in the material world is an illusion. That is
to say that our true essence is not attached to the material world as we see
it, but part of a much grandeur consciousness and reality of which we are
mostly blind in our world. This True
reality is full of Joy and Love. Our
material reality is often full of fear and pain. The material world has been designed to help
us experience what we are not and hopefully remember what we are which is Love.

One of the greatest challenges we have in transcending the
material world is our ego. Our ego is
intricately connected to the material.
It attaches itself to material things, thoughts, pain, imagery and all
things sensual. By attachment I mean
that the ego defines us by material wants, desires, degrees, position in life,
possessions and our heroes. It defines
us by our fears, hope and wishes. Our
ego offers us a false sense of empowerment deluding us into thinking that we
know when we do not know, that we are free when we are not free and that we
have power when in fact we have given up our power to our attachments. For more on a discussion of the ego read
Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth.

The imagery ever present in our world through technologies
such as large wide screen TVs, the Internet, online Apps, Facebook, the constant push of information and ever
present marketing of things offers the ego unlimited opportunity for attachment. This new world environment makes the
self-realization process for the discovery of our true Self that much more
challenging for many people.

For politicians this world of imagery and illusion is the
perfect medium for attracting masses of unaware people with lies, half-baked
solutions, misinformation, illogic and false hope amassing an electorate guided
by ego rather than Truth towards yet another misbegotten reality. The outcome of this process will yet again be
the status quo – a world of the spiritually primitive totally unaware of their creative
power to truly change things.

The Donald Trump phenomenon is not a surprise and should
have been expected in a world run on ego.
The media loves Donald Trump because he continues to make them a lot of
money. Let’s not forget that the media
helped create Donald Trump.

Donald Trump understands well how ego works as he says, “I
play to people’s fantasies.” “People
want to believe that something is the biggest and greatest and the most
spectacular. I call it truthful
hyperbole.” “Truthful hyperbole” is
where politics has evolved. Donald Trump
is the consummate egoistic politician playing to an egoistic populace. For the electorate who are unaware, the
imagery of Donald Trump is too enticing.

As I’ve said before, I am not being judgmental only
observing. If you want to understand
what is going on in American politics today you need to understand ego and its
attraction to all things material, its ability to delude us in thinking
illusion is reality and its power to disrupt whole societies.

Whether Donald Trump becomes President depends on how the battle of egos plays out. And this battle is not only among the
candidates, but the electorate, media, financial backers, foreign governments,
corporations and of course those who rule the world.